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Ishikawa

From cultural Kanazawa to coastal Noto

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Kenrokuen Garden (Photo: Michael Mighty / JT)

Top Attractions in Ishikawa

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Ishikawa Top 10

  1. Kanazawa Loop Bus
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    Kanazawa Loop Bus

    Kanazawa
  2. Gold Leaf Ice Cream at Hakuichi's
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    Gold Leaf Ice Cream at Hakuichi's

    Kanazawa
  3. Yukidaruma Snowman Festival: Kuwajima
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    Yukidaruma Snowman Festival: Kuwajima

    Culture
  4. Post-quake Support for Noto
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    Post-quake Support for Noto

    Culture
  5. Kids' Paradise in Kanazawa
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    Kids' Paradise in Kanazawa

    Kanazawa
  6. Old-Time Farm Life: Shunran-no-Sato
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    Old-Time Farm Life: Shunran-no-Sato

    Activities
  7. Satoyama Living in Wajima, Noto
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    Satoyama Living in Wajima, Noto

    Activities
  8. NAKED Night Walk™ Ishikawa Natadera
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    NAKED Night Walk™ Ishikawa Natadera

    Culture
  9. The Japanese Alps
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    The Japanese Alps

    Culture
  10. Wajima Morning Market
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    Wajima Morning Market

    Shopping

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Where to eat in Ishikawa

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Places to stay in Ishikawa

APA Hotel Kanazawa Chuo
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APA Hotel Kanazawa Chuo

Peter Sidell

In historical Kanazawa in Japan's Ishikawa prefecture, APA Hotel Kanazawa Chuo is an affordable, comfortable hotel in the heart..

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Forza Hotel, Kanazawa
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Forza Hotel, Kanazawa

Peter Sidell

In Kanazawa in Japan's Ishikawa prefecture, Forza Hotel is an elegant, comfortable but reasonably priced hotel, well located..

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Hakusan Folk Museum
Culture

Hakusan Folk Museum

Susan May

For the past several hundred years, people in the foothills of Mt. Hakusan have lived off the land, deep in the mountains. This..

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About Ishikawa

Okinawa Nagasaki Fukuoka Saga Kumamoto Kagoshima Miyazaki Oita Ehime Kochi Tokushima Kagawa Yamaguchi Hiroshima Okayama Tottori Shimane Hyogo Kyoto Osaka Wakayama Nara Shiga Mie Fukui Ishikawa Toyama Gifu Aichi Nagano Shizuoka Niigata Yamanashi Kanagawa Tokyo Saitama Gunma Tochigi Chiba Ibaraki Fukushima Miyagi Yamagata Iwate Akita Aomori Hokkaido
Region Chubu
Island Honshu
Capital Visiting Kanazawa
Population 1,169,788
Area 4,186.15 km²

The opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen route between Nagano and Kanazawa, Ishikawa’s capital, in March 2015 has skyrocketed Ishikawa Prefecture (石川県, Ishikawa-ken) up the list of popular Japanese tourist destinations; now, Kanazawa can be reached in just under two and a half hours from Tokyo by bullet train.

This means that the breathtaking Kenroku-en is more easily accessible, as is Myoryu-ji (also known as the Ninja Temple).

The view of the Senmaida (1000 Rice Fields) adjacent to the Sea of Japan is absolutely fabulous, while Ishikawa is also home to Mount Maru (one of the Three Holy Mountains of Japan), delicious seafood, and relaxing hot springs, as well as many ski slopes in the winter.

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